The Blog Roll

Guardian

Some of the biggest mysteries of the world are the little things: why do only people who look up tend to get pooed on by birds? Why do the hinges on pedal bins rarely last longer than one month? But one of the most pressing questions concerns babies, of course. And that question is: why do their heads look so big in relation to their bodies?

I was pondering this moments before the door opened, my hands full of baby More

The Catastrophic Consequences of Offshore Drilling

It is impossible to overlook the recent environmental disaster caused by human negligence and greed. I am talking about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, of course. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig might be cited as the primary reason for the spill but to my mind, the main reason for such potential damage to the world, is the absence of human foresight and even basic intelligence.

Will we never learn? This is not the More

The Myth To End All Myths

Men can be such moaners. Women might moan about Cosmetic Surgery Prices and laddering their tights, but it’s nothing compared to male moaning. Recently I was in the company of one such moaning man. His point of moaning? The men’s toilets. “They’re rubbish, I bet the girls toilets are so much better,” he said.

This continued for some time. I sat and drank my wine, and Mark moaned on and on about how great the ladies lavatories were supposed to More

Sorry Men, But It Is Like This

I am a girl thus I have brilliant ideas non-stop. Need I say more? No, I didn’t think so. Girls, since the dawn of time, have been the ones with the really great ideas. Like Laser tattoo removal , yep, that was a girl idea. And Einstein? He wouldn’t have got anywhere without his woman (Ok, I have no facts to base this on, but we all know it has to be true, right?).

Back to my wonderful ideas. Ok, More

All Girl

Even though I am a woman through-and-through (and being a northern woman can give you a quote for every laser hair removal manchester based place) I can see that in some ways men are treated somewhat unfairly, despite them pretty much ruling the world. Case in point: take women only car insurance for example. I shall not complain too much, as it allows me a fabulously cheap deal on my little girly car, but what would happen if a men More

Janemares

There are many words and expressions that are just too stupid and difficult to know to justify existing; like buy idebenoneand ‘big as a cow!’ (When the correct term would be something like ‘big as a semi-detached house, if not somewhat bigger!’) Then there are those words so pointless and inept, yet so clever. One of them is equivalent. If you’re looking for a word to mean anything but what it means, More

Why Bother?

Being alive is fun isn’t it? And you’re only here for a bit so why not burn all the bridges you can and have as much fun as is humanly possible, right? I think we’ve probably done that enough. A few hundred years of it is more than enough time to do a great deal of damage to the environment. But here’s the thing–every few seconds a newer generation is being born in to the world and they want to More

Geek Tastic And Then SOME

meetageek.eu, seriously, MEET A GEEK! Don’t know what the hell I am talking about? Completely and utterly lost and confounded? Well, you shouldn’t be, because it’s apparently quite a big deal (although I too was lost fully, of course). If you didn’t know, meetageek.eu is the premium website for all you out there who find the idea of stepping out the door and meeting a real living flesh and blood human being—god only help you should it be an attractive More

Movie Review: The Bourne Series

Robert Ludlum, the man behind the Jason Bourne series, began writing professionally

at the age of forty or thereabouts; before that he’d been a well-known theatre actor and

producer. The super successful The Bourne Identity was one of his first forays in to

novel writing and as far as debut novels go a phenomenal achievement; Ludlum wasn’t

happy with not having enough money to be able to provide for his family, so with this

new achievement under his belt he More

Lies, lies, and mushroom soup

When I was little, I was told that it was okay to tell the occasional white lie if it meant avoiding hurting someone’s feelings. After all, nobody wants to be known as the person who says mean things, or to deal with having these actions on our conscience. The truth, after all, can be a painful thing, and sometimes it’s best to gently sidestep it by giving a response that doesn’t tell the whole truth, but that isn’t necessarily a More